Why? I am DONE with this mess.

@diehardNFFLbarnone;

 You are not allowed to quit now. The best part is coming up.

You keep saying that Mike, i’ll keep saying duke could beat the Nets right now

@Mike— Yeah, one good draft pick followed by five years of nothing, a mid-level free agent like Joe Johnson, and another fine coach in the tradition of Byron, LFrank, and Kiki. If we don’t luck in to Wall or Turner we’ll be lucky to crack .500 in the next 5 years.

what i have been saying is i would like whoever we pick, johnson at the three and boozer at the four

I have a funny feeling something big is cooking. I dunno maybe I’m being optimistic but I’m still getting that feeling.

thorns ass

I want wall, stoudemire and Johnson. I’d be overjoyed with them.

im relieved abnout the number 1 pick thing. we can drop to 2 and that decision is even easier. how many times have we seen two great players drafted 1 and 2 and the second turns out to be a blessing that he dropped?

imaginei if portanland had durant instead of oden. they would be UNSTOPPABLE!

@i but portland needed the center. who would be their starter right now? joel pryzyzyzyzyzya?

Lol yea it’s thorns ass that’s why I’m getting a good feeling about something great happening. Let’s be real tho, thorns hands have been tied up for 6 years now. Change is coming. Let’s pray it happens before Thursday.

“They hoped to use the likes of Bobby Simmons ($11.24 million) and Tony Battie ($6.6 million) in case they could get a good player who makes big money – perhaps an Amar’e Stoudemire – and the other team wanted expiring contracts back. That hasn’t presented itself yet.”

What are they smoking? Even in this market, no one is going to give away a star just for expiring contracts. And the few teams that are interested in doing so have players with unfavorable contracts.

Do they think we are the only team with large expiring deals?

This is the SOS we’ve been hearing for 3+ years, “if we can get a bargain, then we’ll make a trade” otherwise its business as usual.

Yi of little faith. LMAO

ASpecial Delivery: “Let’s be real tho, thorns hands have been tied up for 6 years now.”

I don’t think Ratner made him draft poorly or hire bad coaches. Thorn has got to go for us to see the big turharound we’re hoping for.

Transformative players…People saying Wall is the most transformative player since LeBron. Well, they forgot that Oden was supposed to be Bill Russell.

You forgot the #3 pick. The 2001 draft: Kwame, Tyson, Pau Gasol; Or the #3 and #4 pick. The 2005 draft: Bogut, M. Williams, Deron Williams, Chris Paul.

if we fall to #3 or 4 im all in on favors

Drafting bad players I can agree with but hiring coaches costs money so that falls on ratner. Also lopez and CDR made up for a crapload of draft mistakes but overall it’s still been bad I agree.

How can you come so far to give up now. In just a few months all will be revealed.

june when we get the fourth pick? fun

-I don’t even understand the thinking here in doing nothing. If Cleveland gets Amare, then Lebron is staying put.

-If the knicks make the T-Mac trade then David Lee is off the market also. Plus the knicks have money to sign at least 1 other big name free agent.

-Bosh and Joe Johnson think the Nets are a joke.

-That leaves only D-Wade and if he leaves Miami at all he is not coming to the nets. Or Rudi Gay, who they will have to over pay, is not a leader, and makes the team marginally better at best.

It seems to me that with 4 wins and rapidly diminishing free agent options, the Nets should not be standing pat. NI I would love your take about what the hell Rod could be thinking at this point?

Lopez and CDR were excellent picks, but Kiki is almost certainly going and the ability to draft intelligently is going with him.

Lopez, CDR, and Ryan Anderson was the prolly the best draft weve ever hadin terms of getting talent using late picks.

Re: Humphries in fashion show…

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/3e/fullj.734369a6358952d4d38046c5cdbb67bb/734369a6358952d4d38046c5cdbb67bb-getty-95898741jm005_jam_session.jpg

Oh, I forgot to add “haha”.

Kiki is destroying CDR. I’d love to not have him around to ruin our draft picks. Also who doesn’t know that Yi is a bench player or worse by now? Just Kiki apparently. I can’t wait to see them both hit the D League.

If I were proky id do this:
Hire mike fratello as interim head coach for remainder of year. Focus on development of young players and change losing culture.

Fire thorn. I’d keep kiki in front office as gm. He is much better talent evaluator in terms of drafting players. That’s of utmost importance with all our draft picks over next few years. Hire colangelo as president simply for change of voice and connections to usa bball and Olympic program. Ie. Lebron, wade, coach k, etc.

@Special_Delivery
There is plenty of blame to go around.

I personally dont want any part of Amare and/or Joe Johnson. I would rather go the Portland route. We should target young players through the draft or draft day trades. After watching a few Ohio State games, Turner is becoming my favorite. Though if we have the #1 pick it is hard to not pick Wall, but If there is a possibility to get two top lottery picks I would trade it. lets say T-wolves get #2 we get #1, I would consider trying to trade #1 pick for their #2(Turner) and #17(Charlotte pick) and maybe even try to pry Rubio from them too.

Best post by Julian Garcia after a long time. He is the worst of the beat writers.

I would be fine with either Wall or Turner, but I am keen towards Turner whose skills would actually fit in well with Harris, if we decide to keep him. A Wall/Harris backcourt would be a nightmare because Harris is one of the 5 worst defenders in the NBA and Harris would have to defend the SG’s(since i doubt Wall is 6’4 like they say).

I’m not reading any of the articles until I hear from Dave D., who is 3 hours behind in Vancouver. Maybe an interview with Proky, if Thorn puts in a good word.

Amare has to go before the deadline, so scratch him off the list. If he goes to Cleveland, also scratch LeBron coming in 2011. Best Nets can do is figure out a way to get All Star DLee away from Knicks. Otherwise they battle for Boozer, who would rather go to Miami.

The future looks bleak and could be worse by Thursday evening.

What kind of Bull is Thorn feeding Proky? If he was honest, he would say that we have to trade Yi for a real PF by Thursday or there is little hope for the future.

Didn’t Proky say he watches some of the Nets games? Does he get DVD’s? Torture is still allowed in former Soviet Union! He should already know about Yi’s defense, being a former PF himself.

I think getting wall or turner would be great. I do believe Harris is part of solution and trading him would be huge mistake. Turner prob a better fit next year with devin and brook but wall may be better talent. Unfortunately that Dallas pick prob got less valuable after that trade.

Would like to see us turn Simmons expiring contract into iguodala. He’s extremely versatile and could be plugged in at 2-4. Also saves us from walking away with nothing in free agency while he still could thrive next to Lebron. He could play the sg with Lebron at sf and would give us plenty of options with draft. Would let us take wall or turner as guard depth or even let us go harris, wall or turner, ai, Lebron at pf and brook at center. Bench then is lee, cdr, twill, hump and Dallas pick and second rounder. That’s a deep team

Anyone know why Clippers are trying to trade Al Thornton? Isn’t he better than anyone on Nets at SF?

ESPN Insider rumors has something about Jefferson for Luol Deng. Is that Richard or Al Jefferson??
Anyone with ESPN Insider who can elaborate on these trade rumors?

If Thorn has the nerve, he would tell Proky that Cash and draft picks are needed to interest another team in any Nets player before deadline.

If the Nets name doesn’t come up in the News in 24 hours, chances are there will be no activity.

The biggest farce of the possible trades involves Tracy McGrady. ESPN NEWS reported that McGrady might not be able to play at all this year! Yet Houston expects Knicks or Wizards to give several decent players for the right to keep McGrady (and his 22 million salary) on the bench for the rest of the season and have the opportunity to re-sign him for MegaBucks next year with the hope he plus his HUGE Ego can play next year.

I predict in the end, Houston will have to beg to give him away. I wouldn’t offer Hassel for McGrady if he couldn’t play. Maybe Hassel+Battie+Simmons, only if it freed up a spot for a D-Leaguer!

Probably best chance for Nets is for them to facilitate Houston in giving away McGrady to another team. Maybe Nets get a 2nd round pick.

@ jerry25 – It’s the Timberwolves.

@ ryan243 – Andre Iguodala is going to Cleveland.

I’d be happy to also see nets make an effort to get involved as third team in amare sweepstakes offering Yi and a 2nd rounder or expiring for either robin lopez or beasley. They don’t need to hit a homerun but going after iguodala and either lopez or beasley would be huge step for this team. Adding 1 or 2 nice complementary pieces before the draft will be very. Positive going into free agency

What sucks is we have much better pieces to get iguodala from philly than any other team rumored to be making a play for him.

Anything but Amare to Cleveland.
Amare would still be FA this summer.
It would be risky for any team but Cleveland or Miami to take on Amare.

I would be real upset to learn that Thorn is not making calls from Vancouver. Mikhail could see Rod in action as his cell phone keeps ringing for help with expirings.

Where is AI#2 to Cleveland link? Must be just wishful thinking.

Spurs are trying to get Tyrus Thomas for Antonio McDyess.
Thomas would work well with Spurs, for remainder of year, at least.

Lets face it. The real reason why Yi isn’t being shopped, is that Thorn already knows that no team is interested. That would look bad for public relations if that was known.

Just make a trade, almost any trade (except keep Lopez). I know it’s not the most rational approach, but I want some new players to watch and hope for about 5 or 6 more wins this year.
And I’m starting to lean toward Turner instead of Wall as the pick.

WHY. IS. YI. STILL. STARTING?!?!
He’s a bench guy who gives you quick points or returns to the pine.
Play Hump there, or CDR to go small. I don’t really care.

@ jerry25 – It’s on ESPN.